Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-07-14

| a FEW weeks since fourteen tramps
were arrested near Canton, O., where
| they had terroriZed farmers for several
days. They were subsequently indicted
| under the tramp law and test case was
| made. They were found guilty ON the
9TH, and twelve of them were sen fenced
to one years Imprisonment each in the
penitentiary.
OSCAR NJ KELLY, who shot and killed
his wife at Mccoy, Ore, about six weeks
| ago, was taken from the Jail at Dalles at
| two O'Clock on the morning of the 7th, by
| mob, and hanged. On first hearing the
mob Kelly broke his lamp and cut his
| neck. wrist and ankles, and was rapidly
bleeding to death when seized.
| JOHN SWIFT, aged twenty-five, shot and
| killed his wife Katie. at Hartford, Conn.,,
on the It'll. He had been separated from
her some months because of her refus al
rested.
DIR. NORTH, of Peru, Ind, who was shot
| by Christensen, is dead.
The National Council of Educators was
| IN session at Chicago On the Sth.
| MIR. PowDERLY is out in a letter de-
| nouncing grain and stock brokers.
A FARMHOUSE at Ardenhoe, Buteshire,
S Scotland, was destroyed by fire on the
| night of the 18th, and three women and
| four men servants were burned.
GEORGIA is scandalized by revelations of
the horrors of her convict lease system.
BEN HALLIDAY died at Portland, Ore,
! on the evening of the Sth, after lingering
| painlessly for forty-eight hours. His
body will probably be buried there.
PRINCE FERDINAND has accepted the
election of himself as Prince of Bulgaria.
The indications are that Rus STA will op-
pose his taking the throne.
THE jury in the Jimmy Carroll case at
Galesburg, Ill, returned a verdict of
guilty on the Sth, and fixed the punish
| ment at twelve years in the penitentiary
Carroll is the last of the celebrated
Farmers and Mechanics Bank robbers to
be punished.
THE Bulgarian Cabinet has resigned
consequent upon disputes between the
| RECESS and the ministers. 1t is believed
Toutcheff, president of the Sobranje, will
become Premier.
THE National Rubber Works at Bristol
R. l., on account of the large amount of
manufactured goods on hand, has sus-
pended work for an indefinite period.
Twelve hundred operatives are thus
thrown out of work
1T is stated at CI eveland that Miss Mol
lie Garfield only daughter of the late
President James a Garfield, is engaged
to be married to j. Stanley Brown, who,
it will be remembered, was her fathers
private secretary during his brief career
in the presidential office.
The latest news from Stanley, the AT
rican explorer, is that he is on journey
from Leopoldville to LonSolela. He en-
cOuntered and had to overcome serious
obstacles One of the gravest difficulties
was to replenish his commissary.
THE annual convention of the Union OF
III,
held in Pitts burgh, Pa, commencing
Tuesday, the 18th inst.
a TERRIBLE scourge is raging on Cock
burn Island, Lake Huron. The disease
broke out several days ago, and from
Friday to Tuesday of last week nine
deaths had occurred, and the mortality
was seemingly on the increase. The
disease is supposed to be diphtheria.
There is no doctor on the island and the
inhabitants are fleeing for their lives.
STELLA WILLIAMS, a colored woman
living at McDonalds, Pa, with Lewis
Walker, coal miner, also colored, shot
and killed the latter on the evening of the
7th because he threatened to leave her.
The woman was arrested and taken to the
county Jail at Washington.
George E. RITTER and Frank E. Greene,
of Brookville, Kas., We're indicted by the
United States grand jury at Topeka on
the Sth, for sending obscene literature
through the mails. They pleaded guilty,
and were sentenced to three years each
in the penitentiary.
THE June record shows the largest fire
loss of any June on record, excepting
June, 1877, the month of the great fire at
St John, New Brunswick. The total is
$40, 1872, 100, against So, $50 900 for june
1856, and larger than the average of June
fires for the ten years previous to 1856 by
nearly "a, 000,0O0
TIE recent reports from Washington
that Eastern Colorado was sufferin from
a drought and that homesteaders were
compelled to leave in search of food, is
without foundation. That section OF
country has lately had two, and some
times three, heavy rains each week, and
crops and stock are doing well.
THE Nouos Trenya, of ST. Petersburg
says that the election of Prince Ferdi
nand of Saxe-Coburg to the Bulg arian
throne exhausts Russia's patience. ''Aus-
tria will not succeed" adds the paper;
"Russia's action may inconvenience Aus
tria."